Angelenos: Second Annual Clean Air Car Show, South Pasadena

The clean air car show is coming to town! To a small town east of car-lovin' Los Angeles, no less.

Sunday, July 20, 2008

I went to the South Pasadena First Annual Clean Air Car Show, and IT ROCKED. I saw free screenings of "Who Killed the Electric Car?" and "An Inconvenient Truth" in the fabulous historic Rialto Theatre on Fair Oaks Ave, just south of the olde fashioned Fair Oaks Pharmacy sody shoppe at the corner where it crosses Mission Street.

I eyeballed retoooled (modified) plug-in Priuses. I saw giant PVC solar panels. I saw solar panels added to Priuses. Someone had modded a Honda Element to make it all-electric. People clamored for information on how they could get their diesel cars converted over to biodiesel.

There were panel discussions. Someone from the famed Tesla Motor Corporation spoke about their progress on putting the sexy sports car model in the hands of Hollywood elites who'd pre-ordered them. "When, when, when can we buy the street-friendly sedan version?" people wanted to know.

And of course, there were vendors wanting to let you know about their latest on-demand tankless water heaters. Or sun-powered ovens. (Which baked awesome chocolate chip cookies by the way.)

So, if you have a chance to go this year, you should. It's a nice outdoor festival held in a series of closed-off bank parking lots (how appropos, eh?).

And you can get there by the Gold Line Metro.